tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33826956901627830352024-03-14T00:37:41.880-07:00Red Apple Elegy: Year 7Taking Suburbia SeriouslyRobinBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657536986181234467noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382695690162783035.post-33027816130871970712014-11-20T08:55:00.000-08:002015-04-01T11:36:43.404-07:00Buckley House by Paul Kirk from the Massar Collection<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The car in its carport, bedrooms above. A northwestern Corbusier rises above the landscape. From the backyard the house appears as a collection of rectangles on stilts.<br />
The Massars captured the sense of a sunken sun spot below and hint at the hidden complexity of bridges and atria that lie within.<br />
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Above, the front of the house presents a more ordered facade.<br />
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<br />RobinBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657536986181234467noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382695690162783035.post-89112718836523948112014-11-11T11:32:00.001-08:002015-04-01T11:39:50.149-07:002014 NEIGHBORHOOD CAMPAIGN: Kirk House Restoration Part 1<br />
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When I think of Bellevue and the eastside in general I think of a deeply-rooted conservatism, suburban love of the preservation of property values and a regular trips to the shopping mall.<br />
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In the mid 50s, however, it was seen as the best option if you were an architect newly returned from Europe and a crash course in the International Style courtesy of World War 11. You wanted to start a family, you wanted to experiment with structure, new materials and the naturism of Asian philosophy and you had no money. If you were Paul Kirk, you found your clients in the forested hills on the eastside.<br />
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Across the street from us sits a stunningly simple two-bedroom residence with a central solarium or courtyard garden. Dramatically situated on the edge of a ravine it is hidden from street view behind a large laurel hedge. In fact, if you plug in the street address, here is the view from the curb in Google Street View:</div>
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Penetrate the hidden entrance, however, and you discover a mid-century cube with an inner courtyard completely unchanged since 1955:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It’s been empty since 2007, when we moved down the street. At the time, it was on the market and you could view the interior during frequent open houses. We could still enter the house's interior up until this spring (2014) when a padlock was put on the house, and a rather mysterious sign:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The stout little house bravely stood up to the worst assault of Silly String, chalk and soda pop the neighborhood kids could inflict on it. Not a single window has broken, despite all the glass.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Update: The City Code Compliance Department has been contacted to trim the laurel hedge to improve sight lines for pedestrians and cars using the street at this point in the road, where it curves and meets an intersection. There are no sidewalks here and frequent foot traffic by bus riders, school children and other residents means that the neglect here can become a safety hazard. Other than that, there are no breaches of code compliance and though the house is clearly abandoned it isn't perceived as a nuisance. Even the taxes were paid this year. But by whom?</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Update: I contacted the original 2007 realtor at 360 Modern, who was also a friend of the owner. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Around that time the house was going into foreclosure because owner Valerie was unable to keep up the payments. The realtor </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">told me that Val</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> died suddenly without relatives or a will. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Flash forward seven years and the evidence of neglect can clearly be seen.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Update: several experts from King County Historic Preservation office have been by to assess the condition of the house in recent weeks and have commented that it's in "surprisingly good shape."</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wait! No, its not in foreclosure, its in pre-foreclosure! Recontrust, the current "owner" was found to be a subsidiary of Bank of America (a huge no-no when legally BofA was supposed to use an "independent" trustee.) Recontrust is no longer allowed to do business in the state of Washington</span>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've been instructed to either hire an attorney or contact the local BofA rep or both.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Update: June 17, 2014 Last night I presented a proposal for a community historic preservation project to get the community thinking about preserving a piece of their heritage. The general feeling was that the City should buy it. The City, represented by Ying Carlson, feels that would take a while. It could go up for auction at any time. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would like the Kirk House to become a magnet for lovers of mid-century modern architecture everywhere and to provide the neighborhood with a much-needed exhibit and gathering space as well as an opportunity for people to continue up the hill and visit our neighborhood shopping center: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">"Sixty-Five piles weighing 96 tons were installed inside and outside of the station. These piles were tied into rebar cages inside the new foundation slabs. Inside the station, 1,345 tons of steel have been installed. These include new columns inserted into the perimeter walls on both sides of the brick-covered historic columns along with high strength grout and new steel wall plating, box columns of plate iron that reinforces the existing structural interior columns, and new beams and diaphragm bracing that have been welded to the original steel structure. New shear walls have been added on multiple sides of the main waiting room. Steel floor plates have been added on levels two and three for additional wall and floor strengthening. In the clock tower, parts of the floor on level nine have to be demolished so rusted steel beams can be replaced by new ones. The entire clock tower is also receiving new cross bracing as well as new columns on all corners"</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2009261791_stedward26m.html">St Edwards Seminary</a>, home to 214 students in its heyday, abandoned 300 feet above the north end of Lake Washington. No one wants it anymore. But there were so many people and their children here--strolling about the grounds. Anyway, we talked about the Romanesque Style. We talked in the fading light about<br />
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Built on the site of an ancient Roman villa, 48 acres encompass the whole of Capo Mortola, a half mile into Italy from the French border on the Mediterranean. The land and palazzo were purchased in 1867 by Sir Thomas Hanbury after he made his fortune in China. With his botanist/pharmacist brother Daniel and head gardener Ludwig Winter along with, later, his son Cecil and daughter-in-law Dorothy they built a fabulous botanic garden.</div>
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What made it fabulous was the improbability of building an Eden on such a dry slope.<br />
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Carved out of a steep slope rising 103 metres from the Mediterranean it was not the easiest site to garden. Terraced gardening is not for the faint of heart or weak of muscle. Still standing are the ancient retaining walls, esplanades and old brickwork boundary which separates the Roman villa from the sea. But it's a never-ending process and impossibly hard work. The regional geography, however, works in the botanist's favor by providing the mildest climate north of Egypt and water, though scarce, springs from the snows of the nearby Ligurian Alps. Tropical plants abound here, in fact this garden is the source of the Riviera's early fascination with palm trees.<br />
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Hanbury was the classic Victorian amateur botanist, collecting plants from all over and introducing them to his garden. To propagate them (a Victorian obsession with the secrets of reproduction crops up often in accounts from this time) often required patience and creativity when the native propagators from Africa, Asia and/or South America weren't available. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Australian plants, especially eucalyptus, were one answer to this harsh environment. And eucalyptus had "febrifugal" qualities, good for counteracting the scourge of malaria. This garden was to be a living laboratory, completely out of doors, where pharmaceutical plants from around the globe could be propagated and studied for future medical availability. Drought-tolerant succulents like the agaves and aloes form the backbone of much of the garden and are historically critical components of Central and South American pharma-culture.</span></h3>
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Our visit to Chihuly's Boathouse was made possible by Anne Warjone Bridgeland and Leslie Chihuly. Many thanks to them, and Dale, for an unforgettable evening.<br />
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Which reminded me of "Infestation" from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3382695690162783035#editor/target=post;postID=3434049329497460069;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=31;src=postname">Yorkshire Sculpture Park</a> by Anna Collette Hunt last spring:<br />
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Ancient railroad ties are interspersed with painted glass depicting indigenous animal forms, including insects, by the German landscape architect Herbert Dreiseitl. The park removed an industrial cover in the Pearl District and reconnected it with pre-industrial wetlands which ran through the area.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This last is controversial after the International </span><a href="http://www.darksky.org/">Dark Sky Association</a> took it to task. For me that has to be the last word because protecting wildlife, as the DSA does, always trumps architecture in my book.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And at<b> Inhabitat this week,</b> </span><a href="http://inhabitat.com/mcdonalds-goes-green-in-singapore-with-a-roof-designed-to-sustain-local-wildlife/">mcdonalds-goes-green-in-singapore</a> with a vegetative roof designed to provide space for local wildlife and on Sauvie Island near Portland, this <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tiny-540-square-foot-oregon-home-tops-off-with-a-green-roof/">540-square-foot-oregon-home</a> provides home for a family of four and sports a lush green roof. Originally worker housing from the flooded shipyard worker village of Vanport, the cottage was floated down the river to its current resting place, where it shares the 5-acre property with a large green house, chickens, beehives and more as the family continues its journey toward self-sufficiency.</div>
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"Keep Portland Weird"appears in the opening credits of "Portlandia," and had its origins in 2007 when the owner of Music Millenium imported it from Austin. There's even an extensive article about the KPW movement in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Portland_Weird">Wikipedia</a>, from which I take the following facts:<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tnTQ4mp8R0I/U6GvhOnhb1I/AAAAAAAAEXw/wQfu85j-2kc/s1600/300px-Keep_Portland_Weird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tnTQ4mp8R0I/U6GvhOnhb1I/AAAAAAAAEXw/wQfu85j-2kc/s1600/300px-Keep_Portland_Weird.jpg" /></a></div>
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In a "weirdness" contest with Austin, Portland emerged the clear winner, taking nine of twelve total categories.</div>
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So What makes Portland weird? Things you'd never see in Newport Hills, that's what. For example, </div>
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If you launched a campaign to keep your community "weird", what are the top five symbols you'd choose? I've only come up with one so far. Here's a possible contender for Newport Hills. An egg-shaped topiary outside the beloved Chevron gas station.</div>
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It's so difficult to tell the real from the unreal, what's for sale, what's for free, what's "natural" and what's artifice, and cultivation, lately. You can enjoy both a park and a nursery for free. Is one "real" nature, and the other, "fake?" At the moment, my mother gets more enjoyment from the "fake" because the "real" waterfall is too hard for her to get to.<br />
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Here is a sculpture by Julie Spiedel in the City Hall gardens, downtown Bellevue, WA:</div>
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Perhaps there is no "real', no "fake". Perhaps it is all just a matter of art or advertising, as in a game we used to play with the kids...we would drive past something and ask, "Is it art or is it advertising?" I know it came from my father's wife, Elizabeth, herself an artist of nature. Click <a href="http://www.elizabethreedsmith.com/">here</a> to see more of her work on her website.</div>
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I really wanted to talk about my newly-found friend again, Sarah Horton, and her allotment garden in Liverpool, England. Allotments are like p-patch gardens, which I've written about in these pages. On the other hand they're very different. For now, I just want you to enjoy a visit to Sarah's garden, and save the politics and history for another time. Sarah, a fiber artist, film-maker, writer and certified horticulturist (in addition to many other things) incorporates who she is into her garden. This is truly gardening for the soul. Thank you, Sarah, for sharing it with me.</div>
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When I returned from my travels a month ago, I headed over to my father's garden in Indianola. What a difference to Sarah's! And yet, I kept finding similarities, as well. For one thing, the focus is on contemplation, not production per se. There are collections, arrangements, accomodations. Dad built his house here with great respect for the existing land and flora. Gradually, over many years, he has found his way to gardening with nature.<br />
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Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Area, Bellevue, WA<br />
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Hans Baumann installing "Black Forest"<br />
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I love the Victorian architecture in these northern markets, very much like train stations...</div>
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Here is a delicious recipe for conger eel from Gordon Ramsay's show "Kill Your Meat Before You Eat It"</div>
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Farmer's Markets struggle to compete with large supermarkets and need our support. In Doncaster, the Market is run by Doncaster Council's Town Centre Management Team. They also operate a variety of occasional and regular speciality street markets in the town center throughout the year, and a popular Sunday Car Boot Sale every week.</div>
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RobinBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657536986181234467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382695690162783035.post-46180505104959281342014-03-24T12:24:00.001-07:002015-04-01T11:35:00.952-07:00The Importance of Benches, Steps and Car Boot Sales in Locke ParkEnjoying a classic North of England Victorian park in the sunny springtime, you notice the presence of people, dogs and flowers.<br />
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Locke Park has benches. Countless benches.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rolQMd7iinQ/Ux2Z8SJBG-I/AAAAAAAADcE/oM_CLWDGAac/s1600/DSCF0441.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rolQMd7iinQ/Ux2Z8SJBG-I/AAAAAAAADcE/oM_CLWDGAac/s1600/DSCF0441.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></a></div>
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On any given Sunday there will be a huge turnout for the Car Boot Sale.</div>
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This is how the most industrial of Victorian cities pushed its goods out to a hungry world before the railways came along. Here is the "Bar" where two canals meet in the middle of Birmingham: </div>
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When I got to Gas Street Basin (the first place in Birmingham to get gas street lighting) I wanted to know what the tall building in each of these four shots is--it appeared at the very beginning of my Birmingham visit and reared its head every chance it got thereafter. </div>
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I found out it's The Cube, one of a number of shopping complexes in Central Birmingham and the first to be built under the City's "Big Plan". Known by some locally as "The Tetris" building, I thought it looked like a hospital or pharmaceutical headquarters. See my blog post "Library of Birmingham" for more.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Y9NySL5l5c/UzAIXKl4qzI/AAAAAAAADz0/u77AZSJQ2zQ/s1600/250px-The_Cube_birmingham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Y9NySL5l5c/UzAIXKl4qzI/AAAAAAAADz0/u77AZSJQ2zQ/s1600/250px-The_Cube_birmingham.jpg" /></a> It was designed by Ken Shuttleworth of MAKE Architects.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The collision of old with the new was jarring, but I'd come to see that was what Birmingham was all about.</span> Even Peaky Blinders isn't actually filmed here; at the moment they're shooting the second season in Liverpool.<br />
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Canalside Pub at "The Bar". There's very little to keep you from falling into the canal at any given point. And you really have to mind your head when walking under the bridges and through tunnels. All in all, it was an enjoyable encounter, made more memorable by sharing it with an old friend.<br />
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<br />RobinBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657536986181234467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382695690162783035.post-42204541808275617522014-03-23T06:28:00.004-07:002014-03-26T10:55:13.725-07:00Encounters with Birmingham part 1: Entry PointBombed heavily in World War Two, 2,200 lives were lost in Birmingham. Centrally located and the most important manufacturing center in Britain. For me as a planner, it is THE laboratory for experimentation in design and pure economic, market-driven pragmatism.<br />
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Four expressions that were famous well before I arrived here: Spaghetti Junction, Shopping Complex, Eyesore and Brutalism. Birmingham has bravely stood as the textbook example for all four. I wanted to go and see if it's really as bad as they say it is. And if so, what are they doing about it?<br />
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Yep, that's the work in progress that is New Street Station. An unblinking eyeball surrounded by mirrored panels. A lot of trains run through the midlands station of Birmingham, second largest city in England, the "narrow waistband in the hour clock" of all the train lines that connect north to south.<br />
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Mutated forms of porcelain insects glazed in gorgeous colors, some burnt, some shimmering with gold, awaited us in the stairwell at Yorkshire Sculpture Park outside Barnsley last weekend.</div>
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It put me in mind of four columns above Interstate 5 in Seattle. They came from Plymouth Congregational Church in downtown when it was rebuilt after an earthquake.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">“Once the post office closes, it’s lost from the high street forever. If the private company that has taken the post office into the shop closes it, then it’s gone forever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">“It’s taking the post office off the high street and putting it into the back of convenience stores. They hope to get a <b>footfall increase</b> in their shops.” </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Sound familiar? We had a post office in the Red Apple. When the Red Apple closed, the post office closed, too. Now we have a privatized service which doesn't seem as busy--people don't linger as long.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Click here to read about the <a href="http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/03/08/evolution-of-post-offices-as-traditional-face-changes/">evolution of post offices from the centre of the high street to the back of the shop</a> in the midlands region of England. Some of these post offices are over 100 years old.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">"Since April 2012, decisions have been made to relocate or refurbish 72 branches in areas of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and the Black Country – with further proposals on the table for others.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">A total of 17 post offices have either closed or been earmarked for closure following public consultation, with some yet to move."</span></b></div>
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In a world before billboards, tv ads and groupon, there was the portrait. This one by Nicholas Hilliard hangs in Hardwick Hall, subject of an earlier post here. It is, of course, Queen Elizabeth.</div>
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Magnificent Elizabethan Hardwick Hall on a sunny day. Also known as "Malfoy Manor" from the Harry Potter movies.</div>
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Home of Bess Hardwick, second only to Queen Elizabeth 1 in richest women of the day. Married four times. Who seemed to devote every detail of the home's interiors to the eventual day when Queen Elizabeth would pay her a visit. It never happened. It advertises Bess's loyalty and fidelity to the Queen. As you get closer to the building the strange crenellated forms along the roof which look like shards left by a shelling that somehow left the building itself intact--resolve themselves into Bess's initials, a shout-out to Elizabeth the Queen.</div>
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We walk in Locke Park with Alfy, the neighbor's dog. It's half-term and the children are out on the fine sunny day in droves.<br />
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Out my bedroom window this morning.<br />
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Named for Joseph Locke, who was a railway engineer raised in Barnsley. According to Wikipedia:</div>
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"When the (Liverpool Manchester) line was finally opened in 1830, it was planned for a procession of eight trains to travel from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and back. George Stephenson drove the leading locomotive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_(locomotive)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Northumbrian (locomotive)">“Northumbrian”</a> and Joseph Locke drove “Rocket”. The day was marred by the death of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huskisson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="William Huskisson">William Huskisson</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for Liverpool, who was struck and killed by “Rocket”."</div>
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An observation tower was erected by Sarah McCreerey in memory of her sister, Phoebe, the widow of Joseph Locke, and donor of the land for the park.</div>
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Park Road in Barnsley, running between houses and church, allotments and Locke Park.<br />
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Melly's house<br />
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The Church<br />
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Looking down the street towards the park<br />
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The view of Barnsley from Melly's house<br />
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The day after I arrived in Yorkshire Melly took me to Hardwick Hall on a lovely late February day.</div>
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Another feature that Makes Melly's house unique are the geometric cut-outs that have been carved into the wooden rails and newel posts as you make your way upstairs, not to mention the way light splashes down the different angles created by a number of archways:</div>
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